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I started out running with my dad, a lifelong runner, as my companion/coach. He and I were training for a 10 Miler a few years back, and he kept spitting snot onto the grass strip next to the sidewalk. I was grossed out and grumbled something like “you’d better not do that during the race, what if you hit a spectator??”

He just looked over and was like: “well, then they’d be an EX-SPECTATOR, wouldn’t they?”

...I have been waiting YEARS to share this story in an appropriate context. :D

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re: Snot - if there weren’t bored doormen watching, I’d recommend learning the fine art of the snot rocket. But then again, maybe not something you want to do in front of people or onto a sidewalk. (I mostly run on trails, so it’s not as big of an issue.)

Yeah, I get irrationally angry when people sit or hock loogies on the sidewalk, that’s gross and unnecessary. But I think above and beyond that the issue is that it wasn’t congestion, it was a steady drip. I could have stopped and blown once and been fine if that was the case, but I just dripped the entire time like a gross snot monster. :D